New Heritage Foundation Fight Shows Everything That's Wrong With The GOPhttp://www.businessinsider.com/heritage-fight-with-republicans-is-a-disaster-2013-8/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:28:36 -0500Josh Barrohttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220fa0cecad04302b8b459cCatKinNYFri, 30 Aug 2013 16:01:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220fa0cecad04302b8b459c
You are in desperate need of both psychiatric care and a remedial reading course, Helen. Fortunately for you, Obamacare will allow you to access the former come October 1, and the President's commitment to keeping community colleges affordable will help you with the latter after you get the paranoia and delusions under control. Good luck!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220d8c269bedd0e09cc5b89toxic 13Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:39:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220d8c269bedd0e09cc5b89
That doesn't sound unreasonable or bat guano kooky in the slightest. Holy tin foil hats, Batman.
"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The “best man” at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.
It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States. In foreign policy Mr. Goldwater advocated a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism, and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represented an unrealistic conservatism that was totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century. The issue of poverty compelled the attention of all citizens of our country. Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.
While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented."
-Martin Luther King jr.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220bd8eecad04203adc35eeHelen C SatmaryFri, 30 Aug 2013 11:43:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220bd8eecad04203adc35ee
The democratic party is NO longer. It is the Athiest, communist, muslim party under our Dictator president (small p intended_ Barack Hussein Obama. When he finalizes his plan we will see who is under the bus by choice and it will be you my friend. Not that I am enthralled by the Republicans and have turned Independent but shame on anyone who is a democrat. Obama has even successfully turned what MLK strove for and won into a black race war today. So No cudos to you!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220bbdd69beddba44cc5bb0Helen C SatmaryFri, 30 Aug 2013 11:35:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5220bbdd69beddba44cc5bb0
I read and mostly agree with Heritage Foundation. The Republicans have too many RHINO's who forget they are elected and paid by the people to represent them. Obama cannot do either. It would behoove the Republicans to listen and learn where their bread is buttered!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522011c06bb3f76578e58abbnouseThu, 29 Aug 2013 23:30:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522011c06bb3f76578e58abb
well the truth finally surfaces...it is so annoying to hear anyone in the GOP complain about poor people being lazy and dragging down the economy with government hand outs when the FACT is that federal farm subsidies are the largest form of government assistance that there is with defense contracts a close second. If we had a single payer health care system and shut down our global military empire the middle class would be much better off..which of course is why it will not happen.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fe881eab8ea8677ff5346CatKinNYThu, 29 Aug 2013 20:34:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fe881eab8ea8677ff5346
We have some mighty stupid old people, then, if they thought turning Medicare into a voucher program and turning Social Security over to Wall Street's tender mercies was in their 'best interest'. You'd think retirees would have the time to read a damned newspaper on a regular basis. Anyone who does that knows the GOPers were gunning for granny.
Actually, I think we have a misimpression about how 'old people' vote, because we mistake the views of the slice of the demographic well off enough to live in a Florida community with a golf course in the middle as being representative. They're not. They're the most successful branch of that small Depression born generation known as 'Silent', and their numbers shrink every year; they're still pissed about the 60s and they don't want to pay taxes, so they vote Republican. The 'Greatest Generation', what's left of them, are staunch Democrats, and the Boomers tilt that way too, so the GOP is about to develop a problem with old voters too, if they don't already have one.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fdd02ecad04ca10ff532eJill AgainThu, 29 Aug 2013 19:45:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fdd02ecad04ca10ff532e
The Republican Party you mentioned of old would not recognize the party today, and it's not the McCain's and Romneys that would be their biggest concerns. Republicans long ago abandoned fiscal conservatism, moving instead to pandering to a social and religious conservative fringe on the far right. It's really all very troubling to have the conservatives retain only the label, and none of the substance of the term.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fdbb76bb3f79716e58ab9I am JillThu, 29 Aug 2013 19:39:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fdbb76bb3f79716e58ab9
Republicans seem Hell bent on alienating as many of their constituents as possible.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fc4e26bb3f79660e58ad1meanpeoplesuckThu, 29 Aug 2013 18:02:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fc4e26bb3f79660e58ad1
Other than thinking women can't get pregnant if they are raped, and if they do that it's good because it's "god's" will, thinking it's ok to ram their religion down our throats, thinking it's ok to shoot black schoolchildren if they walk thru your iilly white neighborhood, think it's ok for billionaires to pay taxes at lower rates than janitors, think it's ok to invade countries that have done nothing to us, run up so much debt the economy is ruined for generations, RepubliNaziTards are just great.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fa4c0eab8ea5a77ff531eSterling ArcherThu, 29 Aug 2013 15:45:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521fa4c0eab8ea5a77ff531e
Thanks for sharing this. I'm a genuinely shocked by some of the examples he gives. I guess I had no idea how bad things were. Unfortunately I don't think anything short of all out anarchy could change it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f88816bb3f7e872e58b15Valerie CurlThu, 29 Aug 2013 13:44:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f88816bb3f7e872e58b15
Josh, I agree with you. A few months ago I read a blog post by Chrystia Freeland about farm subsidies and the financial status of large farmers in Canada and the US. (Chrystia's family are large wheat farmers.) I was quite shocked to learn that these large farms and farmers actually millionaires. Yet, the public keeps supporting them, probably because we link farmers with the old fashioned idea of farming or the small farmer today with only a hundred or so acres. In fact, most farming today is done by large corporate farms.
The documentary, Food Inc, is also quite enlightening on how "corporatism" has overtaken our food sources, what our farm subsidy and trade policies have caused and how many smaller farmers are being driven out of business. These subsidies and trade policies also affect illegal immigration, causing Mexican farmers who have been priced out of the market to illegally immigrate to the US in order to feed their families.
I definitely am not a fan of Heritage and even less of DeMint. But the RSC and House GOP, in general, are wrong on this one. I'd say Congress in toto needs the results of a new study (when one is done) showing how badly the farm programs need reforming.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f86c469bedd42187c886eLaLa BloodThu, 29 Aug 2013 13:37:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f86c469bedd42187c886e
More Godly, as in Sharia?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f83a3ecad04a06cff5363Nick CThu, 29 Aug 2013 13:23:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f83a3ecad04a06cff5363
Separation of church and state. Would you be amenable to a more "Godly nation" if that god weren't the god that you believe in?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f813eecad048b6aff5329um..Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:13:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f813eecad048b6aff5329
He won the over 30 white vote. He lost the under 1000 everyone else vote.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7fb369bedd9d077c887ajj2Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:06:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7fb369bedd9d077c887a
People need to realize that this isn't so much a Democrat/Republican fight, it's a fight of the people versus the elitists in DC who want more debt, more war, more spying on you, and more gov't control over your life. This is a perfect example of that.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7cb969beddce027c883aoak111Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:54:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7cb969beddce027c883a
for a view on how Washington works, have a look at:
<a href="http://vimeo.com/72980504" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://vimeo.com/72980504</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7bb66bb3f7e95ee58abcGary DoanThu, 29 Aug 2013 12:49:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7bb66bb3f7e95ee58abc
The Republican Party has turned into a bunch of wimps. For some reason they have been playing defense since Reagan left office. They need to come off as the new Republican Party, the Republican Party of President Lincoln that ended slavery in the US. The Republican Party that fought and won equal rights for women. The Republican Party that supports Capitalism over Socialism. If today's environment, that would take guts and conviction, two things Republicans seem to be lacking. Why in the world were Romney and McCain the last two Presidential candidates? Because wimpy Republicans thought they would draw liberals in, but of course failed to make it happen. They need to be aggressive about the plight of the country and the Socialist path we are on, which is a path to serfdom.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7ba569bedd6e7c7c885aBeltway GregThu, 29 Aug 2013 12:49:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7ba569bedd6e7c7c885a
And in an effort to help I'll make a list:
1. The Mythology of the Reagan Era.
2. Lee Atwater and his spawn Karl Rove.
3. Sarah Palin. Lord she's stupid. Your back-up? Liz Cheney.
4. Your new spokesperson on world events? Donald Rumsfeld.
5. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell.
6. The Impeachment Talk.
7. 2000-2008. You can't ignore it forever.
,8,9,10? Ted Cruz. If any Democrat be they in the House, Senate or Dog Catcher had held dual citizenship conservatives would've had a shit hemorrhage. This is the best you can do in the future? Rubio is a turd too.
And why in the hell couldn't one republican make it to the Mall to celebrate Dr. King's speech yesterday? So you've lost the economic, moral, and spiritual high ground and you expect to govern? How's about we spend some more time appeasing birthers and the Tea Party? I want a strong two party system.
Wake-up Tickle.
Clinton was correct yesterday....How can a democracy survive when it is easier to buy an assault weapon than it is to vote?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7b55ecad046c5fff5314DavidCampThu, 29 Aug 2013 12:48:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7b55ecad046c5fff5314
I'm a fan of Herritage.
I'm a bigger fan of Jim DeMint, my ex-Senator.
If Jim were President we wouldn't be in the mess we are in and we would be a more Godly nation.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f77d469bedde0747c8843Running out of other peoples money....Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:33:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f77d469bedde0747c8843
It'll happen. Vote Democrat for president and Republican for congress to minimize the damage.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f77686bb3f71256e58ad2OldThu, 29 Aug 2013 12:31:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f77686bb3f71256e58ad2
Romney won the over 30 vote. So by old, I guess he means anyone over 30.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f767f6bb3f7ff53e58adbatroposThu, 29 Aug 2013 12:27:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f767f6bb3f7ff53e58adb
Farm subsidies, so called crop insurance, it's ALL give aways to the farmers. Your tax dollars at work. Why don't the idiot tea partiers get outraged over these billions of dollars being given away? Here's a hint......the give aways are to "real americans". That vote republican. What pathetic hypocrites.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f765decad048a54ff5334badbobThu, 29 Aug 2013 12:27:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f765decad048a54ff5334
Old people are the only demo in the Republican party (except for elites) that actually vote with their own self interest at heart. Every other Republican demographic votes their "beliefs" even if they are not in their own interests. These days the "stupid southern white" demo is a classic example. In every Southern state, there are more poor whites on food stamps than any other ethnicity, yet time and time again they vote for people that promise to cut their benefits.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f75f46bb3f7af51e58b04john1066Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:25:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f75f46bb3f7af51e58b04
Really? So then all those people who voted for Trickle Down are now just swimming in all that wealth?
People do not always vote to protect their own self interests.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7460ecad04cf4bff5392Beltway GregThu, 29 Aug 2013 12:18:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f7460ecad04cf4bff5392
Sure, blame it on the Heritage Foundation. That's your problem. The inability of the Republicans to take responsibility for their mistakes. They're always right. I could list the stupidity but I won't. It really all started with Reaganomics and has gone steadily downhill since that point. That and the fact that most of them resemble George Jones.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f72d26bb3f7324be58b0eOld people tend to vote Republican ?Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:12:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/521f72d26bb3f7324be58b0e
Old people vote whoever protects their interests, like everybody else. People argue about ideologies but when it's time to vote they vote with their wallets, their interests in mind.